[3] In a review for All About Jazz, John Sharpe wrote: "this is one of those albums where the focus is more on the dialogue between two people than any preconceived notions of the roles of the instruments themselves... What is remarkable for such a first time meeting is that there is none of the tentativeness which sometimes afflicts such encounters.

"[4] Ivana Ng of The New York City Jazz Record called the album "an intimate session" and "unstructured play at its best."

She stated: "Imaginative and daring, the two dive into the margins and depths of the cello and drums to uncover a much richer instrumentation and aural palette than one would expect from a duo... [the musicians] have a natural rapport immediately apparent from the very first note.

"[8] A reviewer for Poison Pie Publishing House remarked: "We can't immediately identify another cello and drums duet, but presumably in the history of human music-making, such a combination has previously manifested.

"[9] Writing for The Free Jazz Collective, Olle Lawson described the album as "a wonderful, fully-improvised document of shifting tonal colour, empathic interplay and dark, layered feeling - finally capturing on record the freer depth of Ms Reid's evolving art...